 | John Rouse Bloxam, Magdalen College (University of Oxford) - 1879 - 466 pagina’s
...fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meadows of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens. " This was however the character rather of his inclination than his genius : the grandeur of wildness,... | |
 | John Howard Raymond - 1881 - 1296 pagina’s
...violet velvet lining ' ; they have 'crested palls.' He delighted, as Johnson said of Collins, ' to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens.' His scenery is everywhere magnificent. His Genius is always waited upon with the splendour of an Oriental... | |
 | William Motherwell, James M'conechy - 1881 - 400 pagina’s
...fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." — (Johnson). His ode on "The Passions" shows how familiar his mind was with those terrible images... | |
 | William Motherwell - 1885 - 324 pagina’s
...fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through tlie meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysiau gardens " — (JohnRon. J His ode on The Passions shows how familiar his mind was with those... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 432 pagina’s
...fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meadows of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." It is chiefly the young and the indolent who love to be soothed by works of this character, which require... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 pagina’s
...fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of inchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens. " This was however the character rather of his inclination than his genius ; the grandeur of wildness,... | |
 | William Minto - 1894 - 438 pagina’s
...of Shelley, delighting, as Johnson puts it, " to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." Two years before he went up to London he had published a volume of poems, " Persian Eclogues," Persian... | |
 | William Minto - 1894 - 440 pagina’s
...of Shelley, delighting, as Johnson puts it, " to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." Two years before he went up to London he had published a volume of poems, " Persian Eclogues," Persian... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - 1896 - 312 pagina’s
...fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Klysian gardens." Collins was a town-bred poet and could have known little of the country at first... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 480 pagina’s
...fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens. This was, however, the character rather of his inclination than his genius; the grandeur of wildness... | |
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He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens. 
